“scientists don’t rule out that an accident at a research laboratory in Wuhan might have spread a deadly bat virus that had been collected for scientific study,” writes @IgnatiusPosthttps://t.co/Sormfr4PXy

Cotton’s remarks were repeatedly mischaracterized as him spreading a “debunked conspiracy theory” about COVID19 being a bio-weapon, despite the fact that all Cotton did was point out that the lab was near the wet market in Wuhan where patient zero reportedly contracted COVID19 and suggest that the Chinese government may not be trustworthy.

But Tom Nichols isn’t ready to make nice quite yet:

Or, here's another idea: Maybe Tom Cotton will take the lesson that sounding like an conspiracy crank undermines a valid possibility and a reasonable point that he could have made by sounding more like a senator and less like a caller to the Alex Jones show. https://t.co/odPc9IubFI

You’re wrong here @RadioFreeTom. I get where you’re coming from, but your natural instinct to reject any R who sides with Trump made you lose sight of this. @TomCottonAR tried to get ahead of this and partisanship blinded the country’s response.